“We’re going to try to do the best job we can in keeping the streets clear,” Cassella said. “But as of now, over the next couple of days, we are trying frantically to get some truckloads in here.”

Mark Klein, a spokesman for Cargill Salt, a major supplier for the Northeast, said crews are working overtime, but added that ice and snow along the East Coast has made it more difficult to ship salt from the Southern mines to the North.

“In a typical winter, most of the road salt is delivered before the first snowflakes fly,” he said.